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GADSDEN, Alabama -- The Gadsden City Council later this month could consider a resolution calling for a vote on allowing Sunday liquor sales.

Councilman Bill Stewart said he is asking city attorneys to draft a resolution the council could vote on at its next meeting on Nov. 19. The resolution would ask the local legislative delegation to allow the vote.

"I think people should have the right to vote on it," Stewart said. "I'm not pro or con. We've been asked to make a resolution, so let's do it."

Other members of the council said they would support it, while others suggested the council could merely reuse previous resolutions requesting action from the delegation's members. Councilmen Deverick Williams, Billy J. Harris and Robert Avery have made comments in the past few weeks about allowing a vote on Sunday liquor sales.

"I think the council is unanimous on that fact," Harris said. "You deserve the right to vote on any issue."

Last week, the Chamber of Gadsden-Etowah County passed a similar resolution.